LOK SABHA ELECTION

Narendra Modiled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has swept the Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party won a clear majority, sweeping 282 of 543 seats, ten seats more than the halfway mark required to form government.
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal has been sent to 14day judicial custody in the defamation case filed by senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nitin Gadkari. Kejriwal, a former Delhi chief minister, was sent to Tihar Jail after he refused to sign a personal bond of Rs...

New Delhi: Lashing out at "rootless wonders and spineless creepers" for his party's plight, senior Congress leader Kishore Chandra Deo on Sunday said the Congress would not have come to such a pass if Rahul Gandhi had ensured implementation of half the promises made after he became party's Vice President.
Deo,...

New Delhi: The just concluded 16th Lok Sabha elections has created a record of sorts with 61 women MPs being elected to the Lower House.
According to an analysis of PRS Legislative Research, it was a marginal increase when compared with the 2009 general elections, when 58 women were elected.
As far...

New Delhi: With just a day to go for Prime Ministerelect Narendra Modi's swearingin ceremony, the final decision to decide the Cabinet is due to be taken soon. Modi is likely to merge ministries to downsize the government.
Bharatiya Janata party leader Arun Jaitley is the frontrunner for the post...

With just a day to go for Prime Ministerelect Narendra Modi's swearingin ceremony, the final decision to decide the Cabinet is due to be taken soon. Modi is likely to merge ministries to downsize the government.
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After two days of "will he, wont he" speculation we got the confirmation on saturday that Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif will be attending Modi's swearing in ceremony, along with the other SAARC leaders. It will be seen if the meet leads to a new chapter in the strategic dialogue of...

New Delhi: Despite the voices of dissent within the Congress, the party elected Sonia Gandhi as its Chairperson in its crucial Parliamentary Party meet held on Saturday. But the image of the recent drubbing was obvious from the empty benches at the meet.
Though the election of Sonia was taken unanimously,...

BJP leader Om Mathur on Saturday said that Jaswant Singh's revolt on denial of a ticket was unfair and he should have avoided contesting the Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate.
"Revolt by senior leader like Jaswant Singh on denial of a ticket was unfair. There may be reasons for...

Just a few days after the Lok Sabha election results, which showed that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had failed to make much impact in large parts of India, two of its prominent members have resigned from the party. AAP's founding member Shazia Ilmi and businessman Captain GR Gopinath resigned...

Congress President Sonia Gandhi was on Saturday reelected as the Parliamentary Party Chairperson in a brief meeting of the party's recently elected Lok Sabha members in New Delhi. The Congress, which will be sitting in the Opposition after a decade, does not even qualify to have the Leader of Opposition...

New Delhi: Having faced its worst ever defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday admitted that her party failed to gauge the voters' anger against the party which ultimately led to its massive rout.
After being reelected as the Chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party on Saturday,...

New Delhi: Taking a dig at Aam Aadmi Party, Congress on Saturday said that quitting of two key members Shazia Ilmi and GR Gopinath from the fledging party has "proved" there was no internal democracy in it due to which leaders were "deserting" Arvind Kejriwal.
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Mumbai: BJP on Saturday accused the CongressNCP government in Maharashtra of indulging in "vendetta politics" by cutting off water/power supply to the areas where the ruling alliance did not get votes.
"The CongressNCP government should stop this demonic behaviour and remember that they have to face Assembly polls in four months,"...

New Delhi: While senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders are holding a series of meetings over portfolio distribution in the NDA government, BJP allies too are keeping up the pressure on PM designate Narendra Modi.
BJP allies Telugu Desam Party and Shiv Sena are likely to meet Modi later on Saturday.
Naidu,...

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi was on Saturday reelected as the Parliamentary Party Chairperson in a brief meeting of the party's recently elected Lok Sabha members in New Delhi.
The Congress, which will be sitting in the Opposition after a decade, does not even qualify to have the Leader of...

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend the swearingin ceremony of Indian Prime Ministerdesignate Narendra Modi on May 26 at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. "The Pakistan Prime Minister will be visiting India for the swearingin ceremony," confirmed PML(N) spokesperson Tariq Azim.
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New Delhi: US social networking company Twitter is planning to replicate parts of its India election strategy across countries that go to polls this year, after it emerged as a key tool for politicians and media companies during the world's largest democratic exercise.
In India, Twitter Inc worked closely with politicians...

Reacting to the confirmation from Pakistan PM for attending Narendra Modi's swearing in ceremony, former diplomat G Parthasarathy said that Pakistan is just one of the eight nations that were invited and cautioned that one should not go overboard with just one nation and ignore the others.
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Bangalore: Low cost civil aviation pioneer in India and the founder of Air Deccan Captain GR Gopinath, who has quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), feels that the party has lost the focus and vision. After quitting the party, speaking to CNNIBN he said that there was no point in...

New Delhi: Soon after a confirmation from Pakistan on the arrival of their Prime Minister for the swearingin of Indian Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi, reactions have started pouring in. Former External Affairs minister Natwar Singh hailed Modi's decision and said that he had hit a diplomatic sixer by inviting...

New Delhi: Just a few days after the Lok Sabha election results, which showed that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had failed to make much impact in large parts of India, two of its prominent members have resigned from the party.
AAP's founding member Shazia Ilmi and businessman Captain GR Gopinath...

New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend the swearingin ceremony of Indian Prime Ministerdesignate Narendra Modi on May 26 at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. "The Pakistan Prime Minister will be visiting India for the swearingin ceremony," confirmed PML(N) spokesperson Tariq Azim.
Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson in...

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party supporter and yoga teacher Ramdev said that if he could have become the Prime Minister, Member of Parliament or a Chief Minister if he wanted to. In an interview to CNNIBN, he said, "I am not desperate for any ministry. If I wanted, I could...

New Delhi: Even as the Congress is still coming to terms with its massive defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, voices of dissent are growing within the party with the leadership of the party Vice President Rahul Gandhi under question.
"It is certain that Rahul has some shortcomings which he...

New Delhi: Dissent within Aam Aadmi Party came to the fore as the party's footsoldiers questioned the leadership over the debacle in the Lok Sabha election and demanded dissolution of the Political Affairs Committee (PAC), even as party leaders tried to pacify them.
At a meeting organised to discuss...